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Discussed a little, previously... The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40110729 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40
by tomhow 1y ago
Discussed a little, previously...
The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40110729 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40110729 - April 2024 (87 comments)
The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38464715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38464715 - Nov 2023 (139 comments)
The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31417690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31417690 - May 2022 (86 comments)
The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416485 - March 2019 (157 comments)
The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13781815 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13781815 - March 2017 (307 comments)
The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976694 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976694 - July 2015 (5 comments)
The Unix Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726115 - May 2014 (50 comments)
Anti-foreword to the Unix haters handbook by dmr - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3106271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3106271 - Oct 2011 (31 comments)
The Unix Haters Handbook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272975 - April 2010 (28 comments)
The Unix Hater’s Handbook, Reconsidered - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319773 - Sept 2008 (5 comments)
- microtonal 1y agoAs an aside: Hacker News is getting old, the 2008 discussion is closer to the book’s year (1994) than it is to now.
- cperciva 1y agoI just realized that my most famous comment on HN is the same age as I was when I won the Putnam.
- dang 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045535
- assimpleaspossi 1y agoA sobering thought is that, when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.--Tom Lehrer
- tptacek 1y agoSmooth, Colin. :)
- cm2187 1y agoAnd for the millennials: compare the distance between your birth and ww2 vs your birth and now!
- gunnihinn 1y agoThanks, I hate it.
- darkwater 1y agoI was exactly thinking this the other day while running and seeing an old, rusted lamp post in a rural street: "this was probably put there over 50 years ago, in the early seventies", and then thought at things from "over 50 years ago" when I was a child and well, WW2 was in its making. I don't know while I thought that but that's probably also a sign of our age: WW2 was the biggest thing "from the past" that our families lived or were touched more or less directly.
- cm2187 1y agoBut also ww2 is this black and white thing from our history books. As we get older we get to know more about how recent and relevant it is, we met people who lived it and told us about their actual experience. But it still feels like something that belongs to history rather than a recent event. That's kind of the "anything that happened before my birth I don't care" attitude of today's teenagers.
- simonh 1y agoI'm a Brit born in 66, and growing up I felt that WW2 was recent history. War films were a dominant genre in my early life, we visited the German defences on the French coast while camping as a teenager along with my Grandfather, who served there and visited some locations he remembered. Some buildings still had war damage. In many ways the world of the 70s felt closer to the war era than to nowadays. It was still the cold war, and that was just an extension of the post-war stalemate.
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- JdeBP 1y agoAnyone who thinks that that is a lot should see how much it, and of course the mailing list, were brought up on Usenet in the 1990s. (-: